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Man Wills Himself to Live After Body Nearly Severed by Train

Truman Duncan should be dead. Most people don't survive being run over by a train, but Duncan did. In June 2006, Duncan was working at his job in the rail yards of Cleburne, Texas, when he slipped and fell onto the tracks while riding on the front of a train car that was moving toward a repair dock. "I just fell," the 38-year-old said. "At that point I started running backwards, you know, obviously fast as I could, and I tried to outrun it. I didn't make it." Duncan was pulled under the...Full Story
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